[Python-Dev] Re: pre-PEP [corrected]: Complete, Structured Regular Expression Group Matching (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Mon Aug 23 13:41:26 CEST 2004


Mike Coleman wrote:

>>> parse("hello 1 2 3 4 # 5", "(\w+)", "\s*(\d+)") ('hello', ['1', '2', '3', '4'], ' # 5') No offense, but this code makes me cringe. The "|." trick seems like a horrific hack

"or any other character" a horrific hack? that's RE 101, really.

and you're supposed to use the code, not stare at the implementation. programming is all about abstractions, remember?



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